Like you said, it takes a lot of time, experience and deep self-inquiry to find direct answers for yourself and piece the puzzles together. For myself, lack of patience and jumping into the deep end was a big hurdle that slowed down my progress in the past, but life eventually forced me into a rude awakening - just like many others, especially when you ignore the fundamentals of natural Law, spirituality and ego. It was definitely a humbling experience though, and teachers such as yourself who points to a rough guide map makes the walking the path a bit easier. Never take somebody's words as absolute truth, but confirm with direct experience.
Leo, brother - just want to say tha you've helped me so much in life. I had no access to wisdom and didn't know where to start. And many years ago I just stumbled upon your channel a decided to give it a try (with doubts). And you were the one who helped me to start believing in myself and improving in many aspects. Thank you, brother - I wish you all the best and I respect you so much!
What is ... - Meaning - Science - Evil - Ego - A concept - A belief - Truth - Evidence - A symbol - Language - Fear - Happiness - Identity - Thought - Conflict - Duality - A boundary - Reason - Culture - Judgement - An object - Value
Its AMAZING to keep a journal. I have an app on my phone. It's now 5am in the morning and first I'll meditate and then do breathing exercises. I'll write in my journal what I'm celebrating that day and why I'm feeling great. Ill write about what inspired me and what my purpose is. In the evening I'll write what I'm grateful for. That is a good start to get myself to actually build the habit. Ill grow into writing and in the end do more with contemplation and what you speak about. Making a cup of tea, and listen to the rest of your video. Thanks for sharing!
I purchased the life purpose course and can say it's been nothing short of life changing. It's the price of the course is minute in comparison to the value that you get. But you need to put in the work...if you are not going to work on yourself and do the exercises then dont waste your time and Leo's time. I still have so much to do but I chip away every day at myself and in the course...and when you "finish" the course...you're not really finished! Ever!! It's just new level to reach, a new bar to raise. So much time and effort on Leo's part...make the leap and do the work you wont be sorry.
Leo i never fully agree with what you say but this video was just perfect! I loved it. Journaling is so important to me, mostly because i tend to forget the insights that i get. I feel like the psyche is really fragmented and when you write it's more easy to put it together, just by thinking i can never be too coherent.
Nice video Leo,you are helping me improve my life on a daily basis. But if you are reading this can you please make 2 more videos or touch on these topics if you have time: 1.How our childhood has effects on what we grow into (until we change it). 2. More videos on awareness and the ultimate guide on mastering emotions ( I watched all of your videos on emotions). Thank you for everything and keep fixing lives !! :)
I was relying on you for months Leo but now I have to go deep into myself, I need to let go, we all need to do it, thanks for everything again, "This is not the only way to make me whole, and I won't ever turn my heart to stone" (:
I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses for laziness, but at this point there are too many practices (various meditation practices, self-inquiry etc), that I cannot possibly do all of this every day and still keep my day job and responsibilities. This video definitely makes the case for the importance of this kind of contemplation. But I often find myself having trouble prioritizing practices properly.
I have the same issue. If you didn't have to work, you could spend all day long just doing self-development. This wouldn't even have to be life purpose material. If you added self-development and life purpose, and still no job, that's two lifetimes worth of ground to cover & work on: self-development & life-purpose training & action.
Select one that resonates with you and do it for a year. A lot of the practices are pointing towards the same objective. And many of the practices can awaken you to various things. Go deep not wide.
Thank you. You're right. I think I often feel overwhelmed by a sense of urgency:"I need to get this right soon, because I don't know when I'll die". But it doesn't help to try to do everything at the same time
Leo, my hero. From another brother of this beautiful world. I've been watching so long through the burning bushes... my thirst will never be quenched but your information cast shade over this hot seat of a fallin society.
Neo, I love how the questions you pose this episode and in others intertwine. While I was contemplating relation, meaning and what is personal development the evolution in how a persona relates and interprets came back to me trough my memories and the presented models supplied by you. Thanks for your pointers to the essence of growth. I will likely come back to this one often.
Thanks for the video, Leo. I found this one to be very practical and helpful, although my first round of contemplation has proven to be very....exhausting to actually implement. I would like to document it here for future reference because I ran out of paper :) As I began my first attempt (I made it about 45 minutes in before I had to stop myself), I began to feel an intense anxiety/panic that has been lingering in the back of my mind for months now that I have been distracting myself from and repressing for quite some time now. I then had the most counterintuitive idea: instead of trying to eliminate this anxiety as I have been, why not face it head-on and contemplate it? Within about 5 minutes of serious contemplation, I concluded that, through my direct experience in the present, I have no idea why I would be anxious about something. And just as fast as it thrust itself upon my mind, it was gone completely! This occurred at roughly the 45 minute mark, and I stopped because I broke down in tears of pure joy/relief, which has NEVER happened to me before. I have now decided to block out time every god-damn day to practice this. Thanks again for uploading this, Leo.
I’ve been a viewing Leo’s videos for quite a while now, this is the newest video I’ve seen - the others being at least 2-3 years old. I must say, the way he articulates words now is...meaner, in his older videos he comes across bright, happiness in his voice. I’m quite surprised.
Thank you Leo for another great episode. I have started contemplating many times without success even for ordinary basic questions but in this episode I understood where I was stuck in my study. You basically covered all my questions. Also, you used to post a section for "Video Transcript" at actualized.org. It was very helpful for me to take notes and read it at times where I cannot watch a video. That would be great if you could bring that feature back in your new videos. Cheers mate...
Been journaling for about 4 years now and learned a lot about myself, had very profound realizations and became very self aware specially after getting out of an abusive relationship, researching about psychology and connecting the dots. At first I had high hopes that this knowledge and deep feelings and insights would make me a better person but my intellect and awareness gets trumped most of the time by other dysfunctional parts of my brain and I can't apply them in everyday life.. like dealing with social anxiety, chronic procrastination , alcoholism and sometimes going off on my family who don't deserve it.. It's always a struggle.. I feel like a prisoner of the brain and being hyper aware seems to make me more crazy and also more depressed and disappointed in myself for always resetting and going around in circles. Sometimes I feel like I need a futuristic brain surgery to really get better:( And it sucks because here in my country most people aren't really educated on psychology and most are unempathetic, judge or ridicule those who have issues. We can't control our genetics, childhood brain development, brain physiology and chemistry etc.. w/c dictates how we think,feel, react, behave, our drive and level of capability to change or improve. Just thinking about myself, the future, the big picture, reality just puts me in a state of despair.
This is really important and as an academic I find it difficult to find direct experiences when everyone around me is all theory theory theory . Every day I struggle with myself when the entire world wants me to be someone else. To an academic there is no worse than direct experience because it is unverifiable and unobservable. Science is successful because of this, because of the empirical constraints. And the cost of this success is my inability to think with direct experiences.
Who is it that wants you to be someone else? Usually, such people are only saying that if they know you & see how it might better serve you through going in that the direction they're thinking about. It is only a suggested path, but it's not the way unless you choose it to be such. I only had my parents that chose for me to be someone else. Nobody else gave a shit. If you think the world thinks that much of you, that is just a mirage.
_ The academic mind will never get it because it is "space-time" biased. _ Direct experience is not in space-time and is not comprehensible to the any mind! _ mind is simply the activity of thought. _ experience is NOT a thought, although after an experience one can have thoughts about the experience, but all such thoughts are biased based on psycho-somatic, educational, and general societal conditioning of various sorts. _ Thus the 'mind', any kind of mind, cannot comprehend a direct experience itself _ It is more accurate to say direct 'experiencing' rather than 'experience' since the actual happening is a 'perceiving'. _ The 'perceiving' is assimilated through the sensory process of perception and then thinking about what has been 'percieved' is stored as a memory based on conceptual biases and the memory is recalled with the stored bias and any current bias that may be of influence at the moment. As research has shown, memory is often inaccurate and subject to tiny changes over time.
This is invaluable. It’s going to be a massive, massive help to me with some self doubt issues. Want to go one way but keep getting pulled back by majority going another way and it’s hard not to wonder if you’re going to make a mistake in relation to the pressure of the norm. I’ve been flipping this backwards and forwards getting nowhere. I’m going to contemplate on why I am so bound by what others think, which is ultimately my present problem. Meaning is a great one too. Thanks very much Leo 🤖
While I was listening to this video, I posed my own question, "What is motivation" and just brought to mind an activity I was motivated to do and just observed my mind. I felt a strong pull towards the activity in my mind and I had a sort of "aha" moment where I realized that motivation is just your mind pulling you to do something. Sounds pretty simple, I know, but the realization felt so profound. I can't wait to try this technique out with my journal.
I started watching you cause I related to what you were saying because of my own experiences. after some enlightenment experiences I started looking for information about it and I found your videos, and I was like, OMG he SAW the truth I understand whats he is talking about cause I have been there and I relate what you say with my own experiences..
I did it for the first time and wasnt easy haha, i been thinking about meaning, and i saw how the one word can go deep, like how much power it has, it was mind blowing for me, i will try to make it a habit, i need this.
Leo, I have escaped wage slavery, and I really love all the techniques that you show for self-actualization. I have been doing some of them every single day already: meditation, shamanic breathing, visualizations, affirmations, studying theory, body awareness, mindfulness. I´m just wondering how to do everything else that´s required among all the other daily activities. Sometimes I get really disturbed wondering if I will have enough time to do everything that´s necessary to self-actualization...
_ Introduction - first 3.5 minutes of this video is the most essential "knowledge" that one must "take to heart". It is the beginning of the journey of true humility and the first glimpse of who or what you actually are beyond what the conditioned mind tells you.
Was so pleased to see this posted, the quote at the beginning and the first 5 mins hit home hard and it feels like you read my mind Leo 😱👌🌱thank you as always
It's hard to explain, & I'm not well acquainted with all of this... but. I've been acknowledging my past child self daily as his own person for over a month now as an exercise. He exists to me right now in that place & time, separate from me. I lost my sense of self for a brief moment when my view of my child self & potential future self detached from my current perceived self; my child self is not me, yet my present self is here shaping his future. All my actions in improving my life today is giving my child self a brighter future, & it's this time in my life I'll be looking at 20 years from now as my future self, acknowledging me with the same compassion, love & understanding, because of what I'm doing now! I made this connection with everyone & everything else as well. Perhaps in some convoluted way I've obtained a small piece of understanding oneness? I felt a love I've never felt before. I cried like I had never cried before. For myself, for everything & everyone around me. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I now somewhat recognize the significance & completeness of the present... ! I hope this makes some sense... I'm not sure of it all really...
There are believes, and those you may not even notice that are believed for the longest time while you are doing this work. I may have to complete whatever is left before transcending my position, and I will do my homework as everyone else that wants to develop will have to. I will get the life purpose course for many reasons, or maybe none, you never know.
I will have to admit for a while I did just believe you. I would watch your videos over and over again. That worked up into a certain point. I was surprised how painful it can actually be to question yourself and reality. I had to swallow my pride and admit I don't really know much. Thanks for this new method. I tend to get stuck in my head and my mind likes to go everywhere. Sometimes I do find actually talking to myself to be helpful when trying to clarify things. Thanks again Leo! Also, your thumbnails are really cool. I am wondering if you make them all yourself?
I started writing journal in OneNote at the time when Leo said about it in his commonplace video. Now at this time when I look into it I am totally awestruck and unable to fathom the depth of information I had within myself.
The best method is get in touch with your intuition and inner awareness then you can ask the questions ( if one chooses to ask) and then you will receive the answers you requested. How you ask the question and whether you have the guts to ask the real difficult ones!
Hi Leo, I watch you videos very often and messages you convey are very helpful for my personal development. Thank you so much.Could you post a video on being vs doing?
Im doing the life purpose course now. First I tougth, O Leo is much further now with his subjects etc, so the course will be a little outdated...Its NOT, its timeless and I can very recommend it.
Leo, are you intending on making a video about mental illnesses, their stigmas, the hopelessness that comes with them and what can we do to detach from them, is that in your plans any time soon? I'm sure some people are still stuck in that obstacle since therapy seems to be sucking people out of their money rather than being any beneficial, let's also not forget about the fact that they adore shoving medicines in their patient's mouth just to make them feel "better", so I'm mentioning this whole trap thing, How do people overcome them? Is it with sheer will power, pretending, spirituality...etc?
At the end, Leo finally reveals how tired he is of people commenting things like "Actualized.org is the best Sunday School ever" and "The church of Leo!" And lets not forget my personal favorite....."ALL RISE!!!!"
You are really good explayning/teaching the things. I consider myself a really ignorant person (I don't really know anything neider what's happening in my city in this moments with the laws or the dangers in the streets, etc) So, you made so easy and at the same time really complicated understand your point, but with your examples it is more easy. (Sorry my english, I don't really know well the language)
Fit Outside the Box with Karla Sorry I typed that at 2:00 AM and didn’t realize I posted it. It’s troubling that 3 people decided to like that comment.😐
What am I defending? What am I not accepting? What am I afraid of? Who do I think I'm? Why am I think I'm this? Why do I want someone? Why do I really want this? Why? Why do I feel this way? What is bad? What is good?
Thx Leo! I should have started journaling long time ago, but I never knew how to do it properly. I felt that I'm too stupid for this, and gave it up every time as soon as I realized that I'm full of shit... Since this episode I never leave home without a pen and a notepad.
Contemplation in a nutshell is all about figuring out which questions are relevant for your life, then asking yourself those questions, and then becoming aware of all the ramifications that they bring about, staying on track with that whole process for hours upon hours.
You can approach any subject using the five “W”s - Who, What, Where, When, and Why to get a handle on contemplation, hitting your focus of contemplation from multiple angles. Going further, use each of the five“W”s thinking in terms of all time periods, from the dawn of man until now, or earlier than man in some cases. Mind Maps can also be helpful in contemplating various subjects.
I was doing this as a teenager (with thoughts on life and reality since I was heavy into Buddhism then) , and then stopped when I got a job and got married... Need to go back to this powerful tool. Thanks for inspiration. Your videos really help in so many ways. I used to be terrified of public speaking, and now I'm volunteering to do public presentations at work in front of 100 people (that's a lot for me). You make me rethink everything.
Hello leo, I contemplate through journals, I spend the majority of my time trying to feel better. I can't seem to be able to get there! I asked my self all sorts of questions, and I receive mind blowing answers, but after my revelations I find happiness, joy just not there. I think I tried everything in the book. I don't know where to go from here, except maybe,,,,
Mastermind Question: I agree with you but I wonder if it is not a little bit limiting only learning and contemplate from your own experience, would not it be more efficient to contemplate with experience from others to build on them. Besides, that is it even possible to contemplate without any external information? I would say external information is necessary for you to process your direct experience. Looking forward to mastermind with you all guys!
(00:04) Introduction to Contemplation Using a Journal (01:05) Importance of Seeking Truth for Yourself (02:15) Avoiding the Trap of Beliefs and Ideologies (03:34) Critical Importance of Discovering Truth Firsthand (04:15) Why You Must Derive Truth Through Effort (05:26) The Transformative Power of Contemplation (07:34) Setting the Right Environment for Contemplation (09:09) Starting Contemplation with a Clean Slate (11:37) Avoiding Regurgitation of External Ideas (14:21) Observing Reality Without Preconceived Notions (16:04) Differentiating Thoughts and Physical Objects (18:36) Grounding Contemplation in Direct Experience (21:19) Exploring the Concept of Objects Through Observation (25:51) Expanding Understanding Through Iterative Questions (28:21) Reflecting on Cultural and Moral Assumptions (30:24) Questioning and Testing Assumptions (33:16) Writing Down and Analyzing Contradictions (35:41) Comparing Developed and Undeveloped Individuals (40:33) Using Radical Self-Reliance in Contemplation (43:00) Contemplation as a Destructive Process, Not Constructive (45:41) Avoiding Manipulation in Contemplation (47:38) Pursuing Truth Without Fear of Consequences (50:20) Differentiating Contemplation and Self-Inquiry (52:51) Using Contemplation for Understanding Reality (57:25) The Role of Curiosity in Successful Contemplation (59:57) Avoiding the Trap of Seeking "Right" Answers (1:01:41) Recognizing Cultural Biases in Assumptions (1:03:44) Avoiding Theory Building During Contemplation (1:06:25) Managing Distraction During Contemplation (1:10:37) Practical Applications of Contemplation (1:13:15) Remaining Vigilant Against Ego's Resistance
Hi everyone, any advices to avoid any Ego interferences in contemplation exersices? Maybe meditate before? My Ego presence is still anoying when i try exercises like that. As soon I set my mind to don't fall on any ego trap I'm already at one. I'm a bit lost here. Any help?
Designer Ivan I know what you mean. I think the Idea is to just notice the interference and not judge it. Be the awareness and let everything be as it is. Easier said than done though, of course. Adyashanti has some great videos that might also help 😊. Good luck.
Notes : 7:40 Get your Notepad preffered pencil and paper Sit down and you set a good amount of time 30 or 60 minutes to build up momentum Write the question From ground zero in a same way that you are working through a math provlem or a proof Dont speculate or philosophizing Ground yourself in your direct expirience and concrete examples: Find examples in your direct expirience instead of theories that you have read and learned You let your mind observe what it is How is it arising and what its doing You ask are the red apple and lemon different thoughts? All diffrent kind of thought ls Are they diffrent in someway? You start queationing assumptions Admit thatcyou do not know Keep pointing back what is an object Keep bringing those examples and questions to hwlp you see what an object is It could take a year to know what is The goal is not the answer itself But to have your mind explore the nooks and grannies of questions and different answers Dont write mindlessly stuff down Go slowly Track reality Starting assumptions: 1.you are full of shit 2.Nothing that mind says can be trusted 3.all beliefs and teaching are false 4.only direct experience are true 5.The truth is not fragile Conteplatio is not : 1.Speculation and guesswork 2.Justifying your existing beliefs 3.Building new beliefs 4.Daydreaming fantasy or imagining 5.proofs , debates , disagreement 6.opininizing 7.pursue of success Your problems comes from a lack of deep understanding what they are What is contemplation: 1.obervation 2.deconstruction 3.Awarneas going meta 4.self reflection 5.Queationing assumptions beliefs teachings 6.thinking idependently for yourself and desire to know the truth at any cost List to contemplate: Meaning Scoence Evil Ego Concept Belief Truth Evidence Sympol Language Fear Hapiness Identity Thought Conflict Duality Boundary Reason Culture Object Value Difficult questions: What am i What is reality What ia god Those nees mystical experiences Difference self-inquiry and contemplating: Tracending the mind Thinking about how life works Adittional questions: How am i full of shit How am i lying What truths i refuse to accept How am i evil How am i corrupt Whsy do i fear What do i whine about How do i play victim How im self-biased... Successful contemplation requies : Radical openmindness Fearlesness Brutal self-honesty Carful obervation Impartiality Holding no ideas sacred Not knowing Self-relliance Genuine curiosity Traps : 1.Taking things as self-evident 2.contemplate toward the right answer 3.relying on external sources 4.thinking inside of your culture 5.build grand theories 6.false skepticism rationalizing and science 7.distraction It feels like you cutting lots of bullshit Homework : What is meaning ? Where this meaning come from? What creates meaning ?
Leo, you told us not to write what we learned from external sources in order to recognize what our direct experience tells. But what if I wrote all of that external information first to then question its coherence with my own experience? Maybe this idea may seem like a trap from the ego, but it seems more efficient for me to identify every possible assumption and then question its validity by the start instead of taking the risk of not noticing it in what I write. What do you think about this?
+Rafael Ribeiro It can be useful to write out external assumptions, but there are way too many of them for you to write them all out. And you are not conscious of the most important ones. So either way you cannot escape this risk. Hidden assumptions are always lurking around the corner no matter what you do. So the key is to stay wary.
What is: - Meaning - Science - Evil - Ego - A concept - A belief - Truth - Evidence - A symbol - Language - Fear - Happiness - Identity - Thought - Conflict - Duality - A boundary - Reason - Culture - Judgement - An object - Value
Leo, what do you think about 'the path of bliss'? Seems an appealing idea at first, absurd soon after. Can be seen as a different application of the principle 'awareness alone is curative' ? Can be seen as the quickest way to drop your shoulds ? Can all the 'egoic indulgence' that this kind of approach could and will lead go full circle and end up in the best lifestyle that a person can have? In the spiritual field, i' ve seen teal swan selling it as the best and most direct way to expand and shinzen young just claiming that works too among other tecniques.
Leo, you say that we need to verify truths in our own direct experience. What if the ultimate Truth is transcendent of experience itself? I will leave a quote from an enlightened person that illustrate this particular insight: "You cannot know the Unknowable beyond All Knowing. Knowing requires an Experiencer to experience it. Enlightenment is not a Knowing, which is limited to what is Knowable and not the Realization of the Unknowable Forever Beyond Experiencing."
A video on epistemology and ontology would also be interesting. And one on theism, atheism, deism, pantheism, panentheism, etc. perhaps? Just some ideas...
I do this kind of contemplation all the time... I just have a hard time writing things down.. My mind wanders and I forget what Im writing. Then I forget what Im thinking.. But I feel an, innerstanding, is left..
I somewhat disagree with the notion that using an electronic device is not ideal for journaling. You said that there are tons of distractions, such as notifications and games. I don't think the problem is the notifications themselves, but rather your attitude towards them. Notifications can easily be turned off. And even if you're using a physical notebook and a pencil, you can still be distracted by yourself, wanting to check your phone. Other than that, this is a great video.
I am glad I am still onboard with self-inquiry, St-Lucia conspiracy theory in my mind ran, from the power of All-Chad, so where is creative freedom? What is creative freedom? How can I frame this question to align with higher cognitive thinking and order? Why feels truthful to me, satisfaction currently! The resolution of self and dissolution of self arising and seperating itself, I have never considered that I have to contemplate the lies and deceit of others. Honesty and Truth are fundamentally connected, I think Truth is the first value I will take over consciouness. Let's see! Thank you for any kind of support, even when I am an ass, I hope you know that you also did some serious damage to me with your attitude and if I deny that, I would be lying to myself. Still you vision and work has more value than anything I have seen, yet fuck it takes Truth to handle your content, I did not think I have to go that far and even make people cry even if you advice against it etc. Uniquness is like an emergence phenomena in biology! Lucky miracle!
Who else feels lost when Leo said stop building theories? 😢 I LOVE this episode a lot. Now it’s good to be aware to be careful when you build ideas and theories, but I have the impression there is a limiting belief on the journey of the creator we could become. What do you think about it?
so I know from experience that the only way to experience lasting joy is to let go of the ego and the materialist paradigm and sort of feel the consciousness of everything and how everything is “human”. however, i keep coming back to two questions. how do I know the universe is conscious for one because you talk about spending time in nature and stuff and how you’ll feel spiritual in a sense. but what about if you lived on mars or another cold, dead planet. would you still feel the spirituality there? why does it take being in nature on earth to feel that sense of the universe having human characteristics. shouldn’t it be everywhere if it applied to the whole universe. this leads me to wonder if spirituality exists at all or is it just a person feeling joy because believing that it exists is what makes the mind happy? another shorter but more complex question is why do we have subjective experience?
+Tyler Heiser You can feel spirit anywhere because everything is spirit. After the universe dies due to heat death, there will still be spirit. Spirit is emptiness, so it can embrace any and all forms.
Like you said, it takes a lot of time, experience and deep self-inquiry to find direct answers for yourself and piece the puzzles together. For myself, lack of patience and jumping into the deep end was a big hurdle that slowed down my progress in the past, but life eventually forced me into a rude awakening - just like many others, especially when you ignore the fundamentals of natural Law, spirituality and ego. It was definitely a humbling experience though, and teachers such as yourself who points to a rough guide map makes the walking the path a bit easier. Never take somebody's words as absolute truth, but confirm with direct experience.
Every time Leo doesn't upload in time I always think he reached full enlightenment
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Good one. :'D
Leo, brother - just want to say tha you've helped me so much in life. I had no access to wisdom and didn't know where to start. And many years ago I just stumbled upon your channel a decided to give it a try (with doubts).
And you were the one who helped me to start believing in myself and improving in many aspects. Thank you, brother - I wish you all the best and I respect you so much!
+Eugene Gurevich Glad to be of assistance :)
Love you Leo! I always struggled contemplating just looking in the air because I have literally zero focus. But now everything will change!
Did everything change ?
What is ...
- Meaning
- Science
- Evil
- Ego
- A concept
- A belief
- Truth
- Evidence
- A symbol
- Language
- Fear
- Happiness
- Identity
- Thought
- Conflict
- Duality
- A boundary
- Reason
- Culture
- Judgement
- An object
- Value
Its AMAZING to keep a journal. I have an app on my phone. It's now 5am in the morning and first I'll meditate and then do breathing exercises. I'll write in my journal what I'm celebrating that day and why I'm feeling great. Ill write about what inspired me and what my purpose is. In the evening I'll write what I'm grateful for. That is a good start to get myself to actually build the habit. Ill grow into writing and in the end do more with contemplation and what you speak about. Making a cup of tea, and listen to the rest of your video. Thanks for sharing!
I purchased the life purpose course and can say it's been nothing short of life changing. It's the price of the course is minute in comparison to the value that you get. But you need to put in the work...if you are not going to work on yourself and do the exercises then dont waste your time and Leo's time. I still have so much to do but I chip away every day at myself and in the course...and when you "finish" the course...you're not really finished! Ever!! It's just new level to reach, a new bar to raise. So much time and effort on Leo's part...make the leap and do the work you wont be sorry.
Leo i never fully agree with what you say but this video was just perfect! I loved it. Journaling is so important to me, mostly because i tend to forget the insights that i get. I feel like the psyche is really fragmented and when you write it's more easy to put it together, just by thinking i can never be too coherent.
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Its because u believe that brains are real. If only u knew the ultimate truth that brains do not exist, ud understand leo
Urban Dropper yeah when someone doesn't use their brain for too long it's almost like they don't have it, i get what you're saying
^That's not what he means though by saying "brains do not exist" lol. Has nothing to with how often you utilize it.
Rick James yeah i get it, some people are born like that
Nice video Leo,you are helping me improve my life on a daily basis.
But if you are reading this can you please make 2 more videos or touch on these topics if you have time: 1.How our childhood has effects on what we grow into (until we change it).
2. More videos on awareness and the ultimate guide on mastering emotions ( I watched all of your videos on emotions). Thank you for everything and keep fixing lives !! :)
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I was relying on you for months Leo but now I have to go deep into myself, I need to let go, we all need to do it, thanks for everything again,
"This is not the only way to make me whole, and I won't ever turn my heart to stone" (:
I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses for laziness, but at this point there are too many practices (various meditation practices, self-inquiry etc), that I cannot possibly do all of this every day and still keep my day job and responsibilities.
This video definitely makes the case for the importance of this kind of contemplation. But I often find myself having trouble prioritizing practices properly.
I have the same issue. If you didn't have to work, you could spend all day long just doing self-development. This wouldn't even have to be life purpose material. If you added self-development and life purpose, and still no job, that's two lifetimes worth of ground to cover & work on: self-development & life-purpose training & action.
Select one that resonates with you and do it for a year. A lot of the practices are pointing towards the same objective. And many of the practices can awaken you to various things. Go deep not wide.
Thank you. You're right. I think I often feel overwhelmed by a sense of urgency:"I need to get this right soon, because I don't know when I'll die". But it doesn't help to try to do everything at the same time
Leo, my hero. From another brother of this beautiful world. I've been watching so long through the burning bushes... my thirst will never be quenched but your information cast shade over this hot seat of a fallin society.
Neo, I love how the questions you pose this episode and in others intertwine. While I was contemplating relation, meaning and what is personal development the evolution in how a persona relates and interprets came back to me trough my memories and the presented models supplied by you. Thanks for your pointers to the essence of growth. I will likely come back to this one often.
I love devouring these insights of wisdom! 2 full length actualized videos in 1 day might be getting a tad obsessive? Really loving these techniques:)
Thanks for the video, Leo. I found this one to be very practical and helpful, although my first round of contemplation has proven to be very....exhausting to actually implement. I would like to document it here for future reference because I ran out of paper :)
As I began my first attempt (I made it about 45 minutes in before I had to stop myself), I began to feel an intense anxiety/panic that has been lingering in the back of my mind for months now that I have been distracting myself from and repressing for quite some time now. I then had the most counterintuitive idea: instead of trying to eliminate this anxiety as I have been, why not face it head-on and contemplate it?
Within about 5 minutes of serious contemplation, I concluded that, through my direct experience in the present, I have no idea why I would be anxious about something. And just as fast as it thrust itself upon my mind, it was gone completely!
This occurred at roughly the 45 minute mark, and I stopped because I broke down in tears of pure joy/relief, which has NEVER happened to me before.
I have now decided to block out time every god-damn day to practice this. Thanks again for uploading this, Leo.
I’ve been a viewing Leo’s videos for quite a while now, this is the newest video I’ve seen - the others being at least 2-3 years old. I must say, the way he articulates words now is...meaner, in his older videos he comes across bright, happiness in his voice. I’m quite surprised.
Thank you Leo for another great episode. I have started contemplating many times without success even for ordinary basic questions but in this episode I understood where I was stuck in my study. You basically covered all my questions.
Also, you used to post a section for "Video Transcript" at actualized.org. It was very helpful for me to take notes and read it at times where I cannot watch a video. That would be great if you could bring that feature back in your new videos.
Cheers mate...
Been journaling for about 4 years now and learned a lot about myself, had very profound realizations and became very self aware specially after getting out of an abusive relationship, researching about psychology and connecting the dots. At first I had high hopes that this knowledge and deep feelings and insights would make me a better person but my intellect and awareness gets trumped most of the time by other dysfunctional parts of my brain and I can't apply them in everyday life.. like dealing with social anxiety, chronic procrastination , alcoholism and sometimes going off on my family who don't deserve it.. It's always a struggle.. I feel like a prisoner of the brain and being hyper aware seems to make me more crazy and also more depressed and disappointed in myself for always resetting and going around in circles. Sometimes I feel like I need a futuristic brain surgery to really get better:(
And it sucks because here in my country most people aren't really educated on psychology and most are unempathetic, judge or ridicule those who have issues. We can't control our genetics, childhood brain development, brain physiology and chemistry etc.. w/c dictates how we think,feel, react, behave, our drive and level of capability to change or improve. Just thinking about myself, the future, the big picture, reality just puts me in a state of despair.
Research childhood trauma and how to heal from it.
This is really important and as an academic I find it difficult to find direct experiences when everyone around me is all theory theory theory . Every day I struggle with myself when the entire world wants me to be someone else. To an academic there is no worse than direct experience because it is unverifiable and unobservable. Science is successful because of this, because of the empirical constraints. And the cost of this success is my inability to think with direct experiences.
Who is it that wants you to be someone else? Usually, such people are only saying that if they know you & see how it might better serve you through going in that the direction they're thinking about. It is only a suggested path, but it's not the way unless you choose it to be such. I only had my parents that chose for me to be someone else. Nobody else gave a shit. If you think the world thinks that much of you, that is just a mirage.
not necessarily, you can have direct experience without language. Just don't produce words inside your head, or visual imagery.
_ The academic mind will never get it because it is "space-time" biased.
_ Direct experience is not in space-time and is not comprehensible to the any mind!
_ mind is simply the activity of thought.
_ experience is NOT a thought, although after an experience one can have thoughts about the experience, but all such thoughts are biased based on psycho-somatic, educational, and general societal conditioning of various sorts.
_ Thus the 'mind', any kind of mind, cannot comprehend a direct experience itself
_ It is more accurate to say direct 'experiencing' rather than 'experience' since the actual happening is a 'perceiving'.
_ The 'perceiving' is assimilated through the sensory process of perception and then thinking about what has been 'percieved' is stored as a memory based on conceptual biases and the memory is recalled with the stored bias and any current bias that may be of influence at the moment. As research has shown, memory is often inaccurate and subject to tiny changes over time.
This is invaluable. It’s going to be a massive, massive help to me with some self doubt issues. Want to go one way but keep getting pulled back by majority going another way and it’s hard not to wonder if you’re going to make a mistake in relation to the pressure of the norm. I’ve been flipping this backwards and forwards getting nowhere. I’m going to contemplate on why I am so bound by what others think, which is ultimately my present problem. Meaning is a great one too. Thanks very much Leo 🤖
While I was listening to this video, I posed my own question, "What is motivation" and just brought to mind an activity I was motivated to do and just observed my mind. I felt a strong pull towards the activity in my mind and I had a sort of "aha" moment where I realized that motivation is just your mind pulling you to do something. Sounds pretty simple, I know, but the realization felt so profound. I can't wait to try this technique out with my journal.
I started watching you cause I related to what you were saying because of my own experiences. after some enlightenment experiences I started looking for information about it and I found your videos, and I was like, OMG he SAW the truth I understand whats he is talking about cause I have been there and I relate what you say with my own experiences..
Thanks Leo, adding this to my daily habits. You are changing my life for the better. One of these days i will buy your life purpose program
I did it for the first time and wasnt easy haha, i been thinking about meaning, and i saw how the one word can go deep, like how much power it has, it was mind blowing for me, i will try to make it a habit, i need this.
Oh Leeeeooooo , Where rrrrrrrrrrr you? It's the next Sunday after you released this videeeeooooo. We're waaaaiting for you Leo :)
yeah,,.i hope he is fine
Deepest channel on youtube.
You're so Smart!
Ignacio Medina no hes a sage sages are beyond intelectual
Leo, I have escaped wage slavery, and I really love all the techniques that you show for self-actualization. I have been doing some of them every single day already: meditation, shamanic breathing, visualizations, affirmations, studying theory, body awareness, mindfulness.
I´m just wondering how to do everything else that´s required among all the other daily activities. Sometimes I get really disturbed wondering if I will have enough time to do everything that´s necessary to self-actualization...
I’m proud of you hope keep on the path! I hope to one day be there with you
_ Introduction - first 3.5 minutes of this video is the most essential "knowledge" that one must "take to heart". It is the beginning of the journey of true humility and the first glimpse of who or what you actually are beyond what the conditioned mind tells you.
Hi Leo! A video about boredom would be really helpful. Love your work by the way :)
Looking forward to more videos from you. Thank you. I started mediating regularly but some of the experiences have been freaking me out 😅🤷🏽♀️
Very good systematized self-enquiry method but also explore the experience as well as the idea.
thank you for every word i am so grateful , you contributed in enlightened my mind and soul , and helped me to change my life. god bless you
Was so pleased to see this posted, the quote at the beginning and the first 5 mins hit home hard and it feels like you read my mind Leo 😱👌🌱thank you as always
I really respect this phenomenological approach to everything. My intuition has always urged me in this direction.
Guys, I had a non-psychedelic enlightenment experience this morning... nothing like it.
Michael Briseño what part of noself did you experience?
It's hard to explain, & I'm not well acquainted with all of this... but. I've been acknowledging my past child self daily as his own person for over a month now as an exercise. He exists to me right now in that place & time, separate from me.
I lost my sense of self for a brief moment when my view of my child self & potential future self detached from my current perceived self; my child self is not me, yet my present self is here shaping his future. All my actions in improving my life today is giving my child self a brighter future, & it's this time in my life I'll be looking at 20 years from now as my future self, acknowledging me with the same compassion, love & understanding, because of what I'm doing now!
I made this connection with everyone & everything else as well.
Perhaps in some convoluted way I've obtained a small piece of understanding oneness?
I felt a love I've never felt before. I cried like I had never cried before. For myself, for everything & everyone around me. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I now somewhat recognize the significance & completeness of the present... !
I hope this makes some sense... I'm not sure of it all really...
There are believes, and those you may not even notice that are believed for the longest time while you are doing this work. I may have to complete whatever is left before transcending my position, and I will do my homework as everyone else that wants to develop will have to.
I will get the life purpose course for many reasons, or maybe none, you never know.
I will have to admit for a while I did just believe you. I would watch your videos over and over again. That worked up into a certain point. I was surprised how painful it can actually be to question yourself and reality. I had to swallow my pride and admit I don't really know much.
Thanks for this new method. I tend to get stuck in my head and my mind likes to go everywhere. Sometimes I do find actually talking to myself to be helpful when trying to clarify things.
Thanks again Leo!
Also, your thumbnails are really cool. I am wondering if you make them all yourself?
I started writing journal in OneNote at the time when Leo said about it in his commonplace video. Now at this time when I look into it I am totally awestruck and unable to fathom the depth of information I had within myself.
The best method is get in touch with your intuition and inner awareness then you can ask the questions ( if one chooses to ask) and then you will receive the answers you requested.
How you ask the question and whether you have the guts to ask the real difficult ones!
Hi Leo, I watch you videos very often and messages you convey are very helpful for my personal development. Thank you so much.Could you post a video on being vs doing?
Malayali ??
Im doing the life purpose course now. First I tougth, O Leo is much further now with his subjects etc, so the course will be a little outdated...Its NOT, its timeless and I can very recommend it.
When you fully understand what contemplation is, installing this habit in your life becomes the most self-evident thing ever
The problem is that most people's desire for Truth has been drowned out
Have been waiting for this video for a looong time!
Ive been doing this every day for the past 6 years. It really does work......
Nice! Breaker from reading your first book ever mentioned. "So Good They Can't Ignore You"
I have develop an internal clock indicating me new video releases 😃
Luis Zuno No. You simply have no life and you watch youtube all day.
Same 😂😂😂 Every sunday(in sweden it uploads on sundays) I watch Leos videos in the morning 😂
Damn right! 😄
Same
certainly works better than youtube algorithms hahahaa
Meaning comes from values and what gives something value is its importance, its scarcity, length of its life, convenience, history.
Leo, are you intending on making a video about mental illnesses, their stigmas, the hopelessness that comes with them and what can we do to detach from them, is that in your plans any time soon? I'm sure some people are still stuck in that obstacle since therapy seems to be sucking people out of their money rather than being any beneficial, let's also not forget about the fact that they adore shoving medicines in their patient's mouth just to make them feel "better", so I'm mentioning this whole trap thing, How do people overcome them? Is it with sheer will power, pretending, spirituality...etc?
At the end, Leo finally reveals how tired he is of people commenting things like "Actualized.org is the best Sunday School ever" and "The church of Leo!" And lets not forget my personal favorite....."ALL RISE!!!!"
You are really good explayning/teaching the things. I consider myself a really ignorant person (I don't really know anything neider what's happening in my city in this moments with the laws or the dangers in the streets, etc)
So, you made so easy and at the same time really complicated understand your point, but with your examples it is more easy.
(Sorry my english, I don't really know well the language)
this is the information ive needed. i seemed to reach a stalemate after making alot of improvements. this method is sure to break the plateau.
Cracks me up with those examples ha ha haa.... "Wellll I know from college that a thought is neurons in the brain" ha haa! So funny.
They should ask their self “why do I know from college that neurons are in the brain?”
Derbis the Eternal uh you're why people be scurred to comment on stuff. Must be great to be you.
Fit Outside the Box with Karla Sorry I typed that at 2:00 AM and didn’t realize I posted it. It’s troubling that 3 people decided to like that comment.😐
What am I defending? What am I not accepting? What am I afraid of? Who do I think I'm? Why am I think I'm this? Why do I want someone? Why do I really want this? Why? Why do I feel this way? What is bad? What is good?
Thx Leo! I should have started journaling long time ago, but I never knew how to do it properly. I felt that I'm too stupid for this, and gave it up every time as soon as I realized that I'm full of shit... Since this episode I never leave home without a pen and a notepad.
Contemplation in a nutshell is all about figuring out which questions are relevant for your life, then asking yourself those questions, and then becoming aware of all the ramifications that they bring about, staying on track with that whole process for hours upon hours.
Looking forward to see you talking with people face to face ✌
I' ve already used this tecnique before, very helpful.
Next time i would like to contemplate order and chaos, very interesting question
You can approach any subject using the five “W”s - Who, What, Where, When, and Why to get a handle on contemplation, hitting your focus of contemplation from multiple angles. Going further, use each of the five“W”s thinking in terms of all time periods, from the dawn of man until now, or earlier than man in some cases. Mind Maps can also be helpful in contemplating various subjects.
I was doing this as a teenager (with thoughts on life and reality since I was heavy into Buddhism then) , and then stopped when I got a job and got married... Need to go back to this powerful tool. Thanks for inspiration. Your videos really help in so many ways. I used to be terrified of public speaking, and now I'm volunteering to do public presentations at work in front of 100 people (that's a lot for me). You make me rethink everything.
It's Leo time!😎
The greatest selfless self help hero
Hello leo, I contemplate through journals, I spend the majority of my time trying to feel better. I can't seem to be able to get there! I asked my self all sorts of questions, and I receive mind blowing answers, but after my revelations I find happiness, joy just not there. I think I tried everything in the book. I don't know where to go from here, except maybe,,,,
I get the suspicion that Leo is testing us...to see how long we can stay patient.
40:36 "am I full of shit...", lol Leo, love'n it. Your videos are great!
I FINALLY GT FAREWELL GOLDEN! THANK YOU LEO!!
You are a miracle! I hope you attune well...
Mastermind Question:
I agree with you but I wonder if it is not a little bit limiting only learning and contemplate from your own experience, would not it be more efficient to contemplate with experience from others to build on them. Besides, that is it even possible to contemplate without any external information? I would say external information is necessary for you to process your direct experience. Looking forward to mastermind with you all guys!
(00:04) Introduction to Contemplation Using a Journal
(01:05) Importance of Seeking Truth for Yourself
(02:15) Avoiding the Trap of Beliefs and Ideologies
(03:34) Critical Importance of Discovering Truth Firsthand
(04:15) Why You Must Derive Truth Through Effort
(05:26) The Transformative Power of Contemplation
(07:34) Setting the Right Environment for Contemplation
(09:09) Starting Contemplation with a Clean Slate
(11:37) Avoiding Regurgitation of External Ideas
(14:21) Observing Reality Without Preconceived Notions
(16:04) Differentiating Thoughts and Physical Objects
(18:36) Grounding Contemplation in Direct Experience
(21:19) Exploring the Concept of Objects Through Observation
(25:51) Expanding Understanding Through Iterative Questions
(28:21) Reflecting on Cultural and Moral Assumptions
(30:24) Questioning and Testing Assumptions
(33:16) Writing Down and Analyzing Contradictions
(35:41) Comparing Developed and Undeveloped Individuals
(40:33) Using Radical Self-Reliance in Contemplation
(43:00) Contemplation as a Destructive Process, Not Constructive
(45:41) Avoiding Manipulation in Contemplation
(47:38) Pursuing Truth Without Fear of Consequences
(50:20) Differentiating Contemplation and Self-Inquiry
(52:51) Using Contemplation for Understanding Reality
(57:25) The Role of Curiosity in Successful Contemplation
(59:57) Avoiding the Trap of Seeking "Right" Answers
(1:01:41) Recognizing Cultural Biases in Assumptions
(1:03:44) Avoiding Theory Building During Contemplation
(1:06:25) Managing Distraction During Contemplation
(1:10:37) Practical Applications of Contemplation
(1:13:15) Remaining Vigilant Against Ego's Resistance
Hi everyone, any advices to avoid any Ego interferences in contemplation exersices? Maybe meditate before? My Ego presence is still anoying when i try exercises like that. As soon I set my mind to don't fall on any ego trap I'm already at one. I'm a bit lost here. Any help?
Designer Ivan I know what you mean. I think the Idea is to just notice the interference and not judge it. Be the awareness and let everything be as it is. Easier said than done though, of course. Adyashanti has some great videos that might also help 😊. Good luck.
Hey @Gazstrounaut, thank you. I will check that !
Doing my homework Leo ! Everyday! thank youuu :)
Hurry leo we need your insight into reality.
What is the importance of the journal? Is it about the process, or does it have value after archiving it too?
Notes :
7:40
Get your Notepad preffered pencil and paper
Sit down and you set a good amount of time 30 or 60 minutes to build up momentum
Write the question
From ground zero in a same way that you are working through a math provlem or a proof
Dont speculate or philosophizing
Ground yourself in your direct expirience and concrete examples:
Find examples in your direct expirience instead of theories that you have read and learned
You let your mind observe what it is
How is it arising and what its doing
You ask are the red apple and lemon different thoughts?
All diffrent kind of thought ls
Are they diffrent in someway?
You start queationing assumptions
Admit thatcyou do not know
Keep pointing back what is an object
Keep bringing those examples and questions to hwlp you see what an object is
It could take a year to know what is
The goal is not the answer itself
But to have your mind explore the nooks and grannies of questions and different answers
Dont write mindlessly stuff down
Go slowly
Track reality
Starting assumptions:
1.you are full of shit
2.Nothing that mind says can be trusted
3.all beliefs and teaching are false
4.only direct experience are true
5.The truth is not fragile
Conteplatio is not :
1.Speculation and guesswork
2.Justifying your existing beliefs
3.Building new beliefs
4.Daydreaming fantasy or imagining
5.proofs , debates , disagreement
6.opininizing
7.pursue of success
Your problems comes from a lack of deep understanding what they are
What is contemplation:
1.obervation
2.deconstruction
3.Awarneas going meta
4.self reflection
5.Queationing assumptions beliefs teachings
6.thinking idependently for yourself and desire to know the truth at any cost
List to contemplate:
Meaning
Scoence
Evil
Ego
Concept
Belief
Truth
Evidence
Sympol
Language
Fear
Hapiness
Identity
Thought
Conflict
Duality
Boundary
Reason
Culture
Object
Value
Difficult questions:
What am i
What is reality
What ia god
Those nees mystical experiences
Difference self-inquiry and contemplating:
Tracending the mind
Thinking about how life works
Adittional questions:
How am i full of shit
How am i lying
What truths i refuse to accept
How am i evil
How am i corrupt
Whsy do i fear
What do i whine about
How do i play victim
How im self-biased...
Successful contemplation requies :
Radical openmindness
Fearlesness
Brutal self-honesty
Carful obervation
Impartiality
Holding no ideas sacred
Not knowing
Self-relliance
Genuine curiosity
Traps :
1.Taking things as self-evident
2.contemplate toward the right answer
3.relying on external sources
4.thinking inside of your culture
5.build grand theories
6.false skepticism rationalizing and science
7.distraction
It feels like you cutting lots of bullshit
Homework :
What is meaning ?
Where this meaning come from?
What creates meaning ?
Leo, you told us not to write what we learned from external sources in order to recognize what our direct experience tells. But what if I wrote all of that external information first to then question its coherence with my own experience? Maybe this idea may seem like a trap from the ego, but it seems more efficient for me to identify every possible assumption and then question its validity by the start instead of taking the risk of not noticing it in what I write. What do you think about this?
+Rafael Ribeiro It can be useful to write out external assumptions, but there are way too many of them for you to write them all out. And you are not conscious of the most important ones. So either way you cannot escape this risk. Hidden assumptions are always lurking around the corner no matter what you do. So the key is to stay wary.
Thanks for answering. 😃 Great video.
Simply Brilliant, Thank you Leo
Thank you Leo! That's all I have to say for today
What is:
- Meaning
- Science
- Evil
- Ego
- A concept
- A belief
- Truth
- Evidence
- A symbol
- Language
- Fear
- Happiness
- Identity
- Thought
- Conflict
- Duality
- A boundary
- Reason
- Culture
- Judgement
- An object
- Value
Genuinely good material. Great advice.
I love it when Leo imitates a sceptical follower who whines "But Leo, I don't need to blablabla, can't I just blablabla... " :) :)
Dan Copping but leo brains are real
Exactly what I needed, Leo. Synchronicity :)
Leo, what do you think about 'the path of bliss'?
Seems an appealing idea at first, absurd soon after.
Can be seen as a different application of the principle 'awareness alone is curative' ?
Can be seen as the quickest way to drop your shoulds ?
Can all the 'egoic indulgence' that this kind of approach could and will lead go full circle and end up in the best lifestyle that a person can have?
In the spiritual field, i' ve seen teal swan selling it as the best and most direct way to expand and shinzen young just claiming that works too among other tecniques.
Leo, you say that we need to verify truths in our own direct experience. What if the ultimate Truth is transcendent of experience itself?
I will leave a quote from an enlightened person that illustrate this particular insight:
"You cannot know the Unknowable beyond All Knowing. Knowing requires an Experiencer to experience it. Enlightenment is not a Knowing, which is limited to what is Knowable and not the Realization of the Unknowable Forever Beyond Experiencing."
+David Lockert Lie Learn to crawl before you try to fly.
You made my day, Leo ☺
A video on epistemology and ontology would also be interesting. And one on theism, atheism, deism, pantheism, panentheism, etc. perhaps? Just some ideas...
Leo you should do a Q&A session
Make a video about dating/not dating while pursuing enlightenment. Should u date or wait...
I do this kind of contemplation all the time... I just have a hard time writing things down.. My mind wanders and I forget what Im writing. Then I forget what Im thinking.. But I feel an, innerstanding, is left..
🙏 I was sleep walking before these teachings and meditation.
Can you do a video on neurotic holding patterns? (Basically uncontrollable tensing of muscles)
I somewhat disagree with the notion that using an electronic device is not ideal for journaling.
You said that there are tons of distractions, such as notifications and games.
I don't think the problem is the notifications themselves, but rather your attitude towards them.
Notifications can easily be turned off. And even if you're using a physical notebook and a pencil, you can still be distracted by yourself, wanting to check your phone.
Other than that, this is a great video.
Self = to view life without judgement = Experience
Great video as usual.
I am glad I am still onboard with self-inquiry, St-Lucia conspiracy theory in my mind ran, from the power of All-Chad, so where is creative freedom? What is creative freedom? How can I frame this question to align with higher cognitive thinking and order? Why feels truthful to me, satisfaction currently! The resolution of self and dissolution of self arising and seperating itself, I have never considered that I have to contemplate the lies and deceit of others. Honesty and Truth are fundamentally connected, I think Truth is the first value I will take over consciouness.
Let's see! Thank you for any kind of support, even when I am an ass, I hope you know that you also did some serious damage to me with your attitude and if I deny that, I would be lying to myself. Still you vision and work has more value than anything I have seen, yet fuck it takes Truth to handle your content, I did not think I have to go that far and even make people cry even if you advice against it etc.
Uniquness is like an emergence phenomena in biology! Lucky miracle!
I love step zero! Thanks for spelling it out.
Who else feels lost when Leo said stop building theories? 😢 I LOVE this episode a lot. Now it’s good to be aware to be careful when you build ideas and theories, but I have the impression there is a limiting belief on the journey of the creator we could become. What do you think about it?
So fucking psyched to watch another video by Leo Gura the king
so I know from experience that the only way to experience lasting joy is to let go of the ego and the materialist paradigm and sort of feel the consciousness of everything and how everything is “human”. however, i keep coming back to two questions. how do I know the universe is conscious for one because you talk about spending time in nature and stuff and how you’ll feel spiritual in a sense. but what about if you lived on mars or another cold, dead planet. would you still feel the spirituality there? why does it take being in nature on earth to feel that sense of the universe having human characteristics. shouldn’t it be everywhere if it applied to the whole universe. this leads me to wonder if spirituality exists at all or is it just a person feeling joy because believing that it exists is what makes the mind happy? another shorter but more complex question is why do we have subjective experience?
+Tyler Heiser You can feel spirit anywhere because everything is spirit. After the universe dies due to heat death, there will still be spirit. Spirit is emptiness, so it can embrace any and all forms.
Actualized.org hmm ok i think i understand it at least from a logical standpoint it’s something i’ll contemplate and meditate on
Thank you Leo!❤️
You plug the forums and the life purpose course in every video. ☺️
He needs to put in some new training programs or add a few updates to the Life Purpose course. I'd pay for updates.
I was waiting for you leo , hello